Babe in the Woods
The Boy at the End of The World
By Greg van Eekhout
12 Apr, 2021
Doing the WFC's Homework
Greg Van Eekhout’s 2011 The Boy at the End of The World is a standalone post-apocalyptic adventure.
Fisher is decanted into a high-tech ark under attack. He’s a newborn in the body of an adolescent boy. He manages to escape the facility before it is destroyed. The good news: Fisher was imbued with a suite of skills before being decanted and he is accompanied by a helpful robot named Click. The bad news: his skills are not applicable to current circumstances and Click is broken.
His new world presents him a whole series of exciting discoveries. For one thing, Fisher is no apex predator. He is in fact very far down this world’s food chain.
